By @CaseyNewton
Publication Date: 2026-05-19 23:21:00
Some fun news: we’re doing our first-ever Platformer live event on June 2 at Atlassian headquarters in San Francisco, and you can join us! We’ll be announcing our guests shortly, but suffice to say it’s gonna be a fun time. Only a few dozen tickets are available, so if you’re interested I suggest buying one soon. Get all the details here.
This is a column about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here.
Last week, I sat down with Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, who made what I thought was a pretty strong case that jobs are just harder to automate away than AI companies keep telling us. Aaron’s argument went something like: the last mile of human work — judgment, context, the messy parts — doesn’t actually get automated anytime soon, and companies are about to have many more humans and agents working together, which means we can keep our jobs. I left that conversation pretty…